Policy paper

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 15 September 2025

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine poses a serious threat to UK prosperity and security. We are proud to be a leading partner in providing vital support to Ukraine.

In total, the UK has committed up to £21.8 billion for Ukraine:

• £13 billion in military support (including our £2.26 billion ERA Loan contribution)
• up to £5.3 billion in non-military support (including bilateral assistance and fiscal guarantees) 
• £3.5 billion cover limit in export finance (via UK Export Finance for reconstruction and defence projects)  

Diplomacy

• the UK, alongside France, is jointly leading the Coalition of the Willing nations to support Ukraine’s future security

• the UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership is fostering broader and closer collaboration across 9 key pillars, including defence and security, science and technology, and economy and trade (signed at leader-level on 16 January 2025)

• both leaders announced the intention to restart our bilateral Strategic Dialogue this year. The inaugural meetings took place in 2021

• the UK has supported UNGA resolutions condemning:
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 24 February 2025, 23 February 2023 and 2 March 2022
  • Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear facilities: 24 July 2024
  • Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of 4 eastern Ukrainian regions: 12 October 2022
• we regularly use the UN Security Council to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and reaffirm that Russian disinformation, false accusations and violations of UNSC resolutions will not deter our steadfast support for Ukraine. This included the then Foreign Secretary using the UK’s November 2024 Council Presidency to mark 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and reiterate the importance for the world of Putin failing

• we use the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a forum to hold Russia accountable:

  • the then Foreign Secretary spoke at the Reinforced Permanent Council to set out our continued support for Ukraine (24 February 2025)
  • UK representatives sit across the table from the Russian delegation to deliver interventions every week, calling out malign Russian behaviour, combatting disinformation and isolating it diplomatically
  • we have supported the OSCE’s Support Programme for Ukraine financially and highlighted Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine via the OSCE’s formal fact-finding missions (known as the Moscow Mechanism), which have published 4 reports since February 2022. We invoked the Moscow Mechanism for a fifth time on 24 July 2025 to examine Russia’s treatment of prisoners of war
• we use the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to show UK support for the IAEA’s efforts towards nuclear safety in Ukraine, particularly at ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant). We hold Russia directly accountable for the nuclear safety and security challenges Ukraine now faces, including from Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid

Military

• to date, the UK has committed £10.8 billion in military support for Ukraine since the invasion and we will sustain £3 billion a year in military aid until 2030 to 2031 and for as long as it takes (announced on 10 July 2024)

• we are contributing £2.26 billion to the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration’ Loans for Ukraine, to be repaid using profits generated by seized Russian assets. Two thirds of the UK’s contribution has been disbursed to Ukraine (14 April 2025)

• the UK therefore expects to provide £4.5 billion in support of Ukraine this year – more than in any previous year (16 January 2025)

• UK support provided in the last 50 days includes nearly 5 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 60,000 artillery shells, rockets and missiles, more than 2,500 drones, and additional counter-drone and air defence equipment (3 September 2025)

• £70 million from our ERA Loan contribution will fund 350 ASRAAM air defence missiles (25 June 2025)

• we are investing a record £350 million to deliver 100,000 drones in 2025 to 2026 (4 June 2025)

• Ukraine has received a new rapidly-developed bespoke air defence system called Gravehawk, jointly funded by the UK and Denmark. Two prototypes of the air defence capability system were tested in Ukraine in September, and a further 15 will follow this year (16 January 2025)

•  our UK-Ukraine Defence Industrial Support Treaty expanded the range of military equipment that could be funded by drawing on £3.5 billion of export finance (signed on 19 July 2024). This has enabled a deal worth £2.5 billion that will see Thales supply 5,000 lightweight multirole missiles manufactured in Belfast (10 July 2025)

• a new UK-Ukraine agreement to share battlefield technology will boost UK drone production for Ukraine (23 June 2025)

• we have trained over 58,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX with £247 million invested in training this year (4 June 2025). The training scheme has been extended until at least the end of 2026 (24 August 2025)

• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £2 billion has been pledged to the International Fund for Ukraine to date, including  new contracts worth £30 million for Anduril UK to supply cutting-edge drones (6 March 2025)

Non-military

• the UK’s non-military commitments to Ukraine since the start of the invasion come to over £5.3 billion. This includes:

  • up to £4.1 billion in fiscal support through World Bank loan guarantees to bolster Ukraine’s economic stability and support vital public services. This includes a multi-year commitment announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023
  • up to £1.2 billion committed in bilateral assistance, including up to £283 million in bilateral assistance in 2025 to 2026, to fund humanitarian, energy, stabilisation, reform, recovery and reconstruction programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK provided over £120 million in humanitarian assistance in 2024 to 2025, bringing our total humanitarian contribution to over £477 million for Ukraine and the region from the start of the full-scale invasion to the end of the financial year 2024 to 2025

• in her first visit to Kyiv, the Foreign Secretary announced a £100 million package of humanitarian support, which will help civilians in frontline communities, protect the most vulnerable and provide emergency support for those impacted by Russia’s continued attacks (12 September 2025)

• since the full-scale invasion, we have provided £8.6 million to HALO Trust for mine action and we have extended HALO Trust’s contract for 2025 to 2026, providing a further £4.3 million to support their work in Ukraine. Our demining efforts have cleared over 659,000 square metres of land (May 2022 to end June 2025)

Recovery and reconstruction

• war risk insurance is being provided through the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank group, and through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to boost inward investment into Ukraine

• our £3.5 billion cover limit in export finance via UK Export Finance has supported critical reconstruction projects in Ukraine. This support has already enabled the reconstruction of 6 key bridges in the Kyiv region and the delivery of mine countermeasure vessels

• through our development finance institution, British International Investment (BII), we are working in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to make trade finance available to support critical imports and exports to and from Ukraine.  BII will provide €30 million for MHP, a leading Ukrainian agribusiness, to safeguard jobs and boost resilience in the food and agriculture sectors (10 July 2025)

• up to £10.5 million for the Governance Reform Programme will support efforts on rule of law, justice and anti-corruption (10 July 2025)

• a £25 million social recovery programme will support Ukraine to build more inclusive and efficient social protection systems and revitalise community and family-based services (7 February 2025)

• a £50 million economic recovery programme will unlock hundreds of millions of pounds worth of private lending to bolster the growth and resilience of small and medium businesses in Ukraine (£40 million announced 12 January 2025, £10 million boost announced 5 February 2025)

Energy

• overall, the UK has committed over £450 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees

• as part of this, we have committed £128 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to support repairs, protection and power generation

• this includes a new £42 million energy support package that will help carry out vital repairs to the electricity network and put in place critical protection for gas and power infrastructure (12 September 2025)

• a further £1 million in support of Ukraine’s Green Transition Office was confirmed at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in July 2025

• we have committed £17 million for a second round of the UK’s Innovate Ukraine Green Energy Competition, bringing our total investment to £33 million. This will support UK and Ukrainian innovators to help rebuild a greener and more resilient energy grid (5 February 2025)

Sanctions

• the UK has sanctioned over 2,800 individuals, entities and ships under the Russia sanctions regime, over 2,600 of which have been sanctioned since Putin’s full-scale invasion

• we have now sanctioned over 450 vessels forming part of Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ transporting Russian energy in violation of the Oil Price Cap

• with the EU, we are lowering the crude Oil Price Cap from $60 a barrel to $47.60, directly hitting Russia’s oil revenues, which have already fallen 35% year-on-year to May (18 July 2025)

• UK, US and EU sanctions have denied Russia access to at least $450 billion since February 2022. By one estimate that’s equivalent to around 2 more years of funding for the invasion

• sanctions are making it more costly for Putin’s war machine – Russia pays up to 6 times the price for dual-use items and the cost of components for the Russian defence sector has risen by 30% over 3 years compared to global prices

• this government has imposed sanctions against:

  • 70 more shadow fleet ships and 30 entities and individuals propping up Putin’s war machine (12 September 2025)

  • 8 individuals and 3 organisations forcibly deporting, indoctrinating and militarising Ukrainian children (3 September 2025)

  • those involved in Russia sanctions circumvention networks (20 August 2025)

War crimes and justice

• the UK announced £4.5 million of new funding to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations (29 December 2024). As of July 2025, our overall contribution stands at £11.5 million

• we have also given an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court

• we continue to support efforts to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. We welcome the signing of the bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe (25 June 2025), and Ukraine’s subsequent ratification of the agreement (15 July 2025)

• we are a founding member and Chair of the Conference of Participants of the Register of Damage for Ukraine, which allows Ukrainians to record losses, injury or damage as a result of the war

• we are supporting Ukraine’s efforts to establish a Claims Commission for Ukraine that would assess the claims submitted under the Register of Damage. We are a member of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee and took part in the fourth round of negotiations (9 September 2025)

Trade

• the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement entered into force facilitating duty-free digital content trade (1 September 2024)

• the UK-Ukraine TechBridge delivers projects in mutual trade, investment, innovation research and digital skills development

• our City-Ukraine Hub leverages UK expertise to deliver capacity building projects

• our provision of military equipment to deter attacks  and insurance through the UK-developed Unity facility has supported the Black Sea maritime corridor and enabled Ukraine to keep exporting its goods.  Ukraine exported all of its 2023 and 2024 harvests – crucial for global food security and Ukraine’s economy

• UK-Ukraine Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement enables UK businesses to benefit from tariff free trade on all goods until 31 March 2029 (tariffs on eggs and poultry removed until 31 March 2026) (8 February 2024)

For further information visit the Department for Business and Trade’s Ukraine page.

Ukrainians in the UK

• 226,600 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 167,300 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 30 June 2025)
• the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme opened on 4 February 2025 providing an additional 18 months permission and a continuation of the same rights and entitlements for Ukrainians in the UK on the Ukraine schemes. 80,704 UPE applications have been granted (as of 30 June 2025)
• the then Home Secretary announced on 1 September 2025 that the UPE scheme will be extended by an additional 24 months. This means individuals coming to the end of their initial 18 months’ permission under UPE will be able to apply for a further 24 months under the scheme, totalling 3.5 years under UPE

Contact: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk